Re: Partitioning Zip Disks -- Possible?

[Z5D31@ttacs3.ttu.edu (Captain Harlock)]

In <5idic7$97a@opal.southwind.net> shack@onyx-206.southwind.net writes:

> Captain Harlock (Z5D31@ttacs3.ttu.edu) wrote:
> : Is it possible to partition a Zip disk the way we can do hard drives? I've
> : tried (using a Zip drive hooked up to an Apple IIgs with High-Speed SCSI card
> : and a HFS-formatted 100 meg Zip disk) but the Advanced Disk Utility keeps
> : telling me the disk could not be partitioned.
> 
> Sounds like the symptoms of the APPLE_DRIVER43 problem. When you use a 
> formatter which puts a SCSI manager 4.3 savvy driver on the disk, the driver
> partition has this name rather than the normal APPLE_DRIVER partition. The
> finder gags on this and thinks that APPLE_DRIVER43 is a disk volume and 
> naturally, it's an invalid volume as far as the finder is concerned. Could be
> the how come that the formatter is barfing on the disk too.
> 
> I discovered this when I put a HD SC setup formatted hard disk on my IIgs. The
> cure was to use an old version which puts the normal APPLE_DRIVER partition
> on the disk.
> 
> Judging from your .sig, looks like you aren't fond of Macs so no dice on 
> that. So using IBM formatted zip disks would be the thing to try most likely.

Okay, I'll try it. Thanks for the info.
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David "Captain Harlock" Scott
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